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Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
The story so far
Summary written on Jul 23, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.
Spanning 250 ha (618 acres) near Luz, Portugal, an active wildfire that started on 2026-07-22 is burning with an intense heat signature detected by satellites based on peak fire radiative power.
In the past 48 hours, satellites have picked up 20 heat detections clustered nearby, signaling the spread of the fire.
In context
This wildfire burned in Portugal for 2 days. In total it burned about 250 ha (618 acres) — around 2.5 km². That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in Portugal
Across Portugal, roughly 71,525 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 32% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus EFFIS.
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